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"Tonight, I light the candles for the service, and that's something Jaidon would normally do here on Sunday morning, so you know, it's a struggle right now for me," said cousin Vinson Jenkins.

Earlier in the day, Jackson police and the FBI were at a gas station where evidence was found in connection with the case.

Investigators were seen collecting items, including bloody clothes, from a dumpster at a Shell gas station at Shady Lane Drive and Raymond Road. Members of a county and state task force, called Operation Safe Streets, were at the scene.

The family was last seen traveling in their vehicle, which was found crashed Saturday morning on Shelby Road off Highway 18 in Copiah County, authorities said.

A witness saw the car on fire in a ditch and put the fire out, investigators said.

"The man and his wife and the little 7-year-old boy, Jaidon, they're not accounted for. So, I hate to speculate, but when it goes a long time and you don't have contact, or make any contact, your odds of maybe finding somebody that hadn't been harmed go down, I think," said Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones.

Among the items found Monday was an ID badge belonging to Atira Hill, sources said. Hill works as an assistant at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Family members said someone tried to use one of the couple's ATM cards in Port Gibson early Saturday, but couldn't because whoever it was didn't have the PIN code.

It was not immediately known why the family was in Copiah County. Relatives said they were told the family was going out of town, but were given no details beyond that.

"Just with the bits and pieces (of information) we do have, it's not encouraging. But we haven't given up hope," said relative Vinson Jenkins.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.